Custom edit/delete button Gridview

Question

Hello all,

I am using C#.net

I want to add custom edit/delete buttons to my GridView1 (one edit/delete button per row).

However I want the buttons to access another view (editView/deleteView within the same form), rather than edit ‘inline’ etc.

The edit button seems to be working fine. Here’s how I created it manually:

Right clicked on GridView1
Clicked on ‘Add New Column’
Field Type: ButtonField
Header Text: Edit
Button Type: Button
Command Name: Edit
Text: Edit

Within the ‘Events’ section (located under properties) for GridView1, I double clicked on the RowEditing, this then created a Event I could access within the code behind.

    protected void GridView1_RowEditing(object sender, GridViewEditEventArgs e)
    {
        // Access _viewAdd

        _multiView1.ActiveViewIndex = 1;
   }

The delete button should access the deleteView (confirmation page) rather than just automatically deleting a row. I want to create a custom method that is triggered when the user selects the delete button.

Thanks in advanced for any help.

Clare

Answer 1

There is a RowDeleting event you can handle as well. Both event args have a Cancel property you can set to true to prevent the data from being modified.

Answer 2

I ended up using a repeater and amending both a edit/delete button onto the end of each row. These button not only held the OnClick_Event information but also the ID associated with that row.

      <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater" runat="server" DataSourceID="*****">
        <HeaderTemplate>          
          <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3">
            <tr>
              <th style="text-align:left">Name</th>
              <th>&nbsp;</th>
              <th>&nbsp;</th>
            </tr>            
        </HeaderTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <tr>
              <td style="text-align:left"><%#Eval("forename")%>&nbsp;<%#Eval("surname")%></td>
              <td style="text-align:left"><asp:Button ID="edit" OnCommand="edit_Click" CommandArgument='<%#Eval("id")%>' runat="server" Text="Edit" CssClass="standardButton" /></td>
              <td style="text-align:left"><asp:Button ID="delete" OnCommand="delete_Click" CommandArgument='<%#Eval("id")%>' runat="server" Text="Delete" CssClass="standardButton" /></td>
            </tr>
        </ItemTemplate>
        <FooterTemplate>
          </table>
        </FooterTemplate>
      </asp:Repeater>

I hope that helps other people.